Carstairs Killer's Postcard From Hell

Dec 30 2007 By David Taylor

Exclusive Killer Brags Of Shopping On Jail Day Out

CARSTAIRS killer Robert Mone boasts about mingling with unsuspecting shoppers in an astonishing postcard to a lover.

The card from Mone, 59, was written while he was out of jail on a work placement and brags about spending "lots of dosh" and how he is enjoying a "smashing day" wandering around a busy shopping mall.

The card shows a cartoon map of Scotland with people in kilts drinking beer and tossing cabers.

The schoolroom murderer, who also slaughtered three people in a breakout from Carstairs, has changed his name to James Smith.

Mone is allowed out of Shotts Prison in Lanarkshire to travel to Edinburgh where he translates books into braille.

The Sunday Mail revealed chilling letters from Mone to another gay lover in October.

The 71 pages detailed his sexual fantasies. Mone murdered pregnant teacher Nanette Hanson in her Dundee classroom in 1967 and raped one of her class of 14-year-olds.

In 1976 Mone killed PC George Taylor, 27, nurse Neil McLellan, 46, and patient Iain Simpson, 40, while on the run from the state mental hospital.

Jail bosses are also checking if Mone is involved in a Bebo networking website in his name.

It says he is scared of "ladybirds, guinea pigs, nurses and police officers".

The Scottish Prison Service said: "Prisoners travelling directly to and from prison would not have access to a computer so it is unlikely a prisoner could set up a website like this. We will take appropriate action."

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